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About spring 1863, in Fascicle 28 (h 140).

Fascicle

28 - 22

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About spring 1863, in Fascicle 28 (h140).

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Poems (1891), 190, as two quatrains. The Todd transcript from which the published version derived survives among Higginson's papers (bpl 121-126); it shows the editorial rearrangement of the first stanza to form a quatrain and of the last two lines to effect a rhyme. Poems (1955), 318; CP (1960), 194-95. MB (1981), 664, in facsimile. (J409)